Example sentences of "does [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ?
2 The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market .
3 I tell you oh dear , I do n't mind and er get a couple of hours , but er , it does eventually get to the middle
4 The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson .
5 Many of us know that the three angles of a triangle add up to two right angles , and we know it because we ‘ perceive that equality to two right ones , does necessarily agree to , and is inseparable from the three angles of a triangle ’ .
6 Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion .
7 The child will discover from experience whether the sword glows in the presence of evil , does extra damage to the undead , or perhaps is a cursed sword that makes it easier for monsters to find and wound Samson . )
8 When she does finally succumb to Howard 's advances , her identity crumbles into its component parts .
9 Although the long tendon attaching to digit 3 will develop initially , even though it does not attach to a muscle , it will not persist unless it does attach .
10 It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) .
11 The obligation to make a mandatory offer attaches to the principal member or members of the group of persons who are acting in concert and who obtain or consolidate control ; it does not attach to the company itself .
12 After all , the country does not go to war all that often , even if it is with a second-rate corned-beef republic .
13 If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed .
14 ‘ It is not the least good pretending any longer that the film is a thing one does not go to , ’ admitted Macpherson , the editor of a journal which in 1928 recommended fourteen Russian and European films but at least in a second category included two films by Cecil B. de Mille .
15 But to say that the planned town required a single ownership of the site does not go to the root of the matter .
16 It is not , er this evidence does not go to a matter of law er er and the duty but it matter of practice and my Lord what this case is dealing with is about what if , what is or should be the practice of a solicitors engaged in commercial conveyancing as to the advice that is given to clients and er my Lord the er commercial conveyancing is obviously a matter which particularly concerns .
17 The Pentagon does not care to be investigated by the FBI .
18 of ahi sā that ‘ In the last resort it does not avail to those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love . ’
19 The computer offers many possibilities to the geographer who does not aspire to the world model .
20 In a series of clumsily transalted catch-all statements he declared , Arte Povera ‘ does not aspire to be a unique definition of works of art ’ .
21 Despite the general belief among cost analysts that the tax on company cars currently does not equate to the benefit , the AA says there should be no further increase .
22 As South East Staffordshire health authority has said , attention to the longest waiters ’ does not equate to attention to clinical priorities . ’
23 Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves .
24 Luxemburg does not contribute to the Air component , but all the others contribute in some way to both .
25 There has been some sharp criticism in some areas of the sporting press — principally on three counts : That the turnover generated does not contribute to the levy ; that it is a snub to the all-weather experiment ; that it is pure exploitation of the punter .
26 The article was terminated by a line of words beginning with B. The empty reproduction of information ( a contagion of the Eighties ) does not contribute to rational knowledge and reasoned thought .
27 Thus Reddy concludes that gathered firewood , upon which three-quarters of the people of Pura depend , does not contribute to deforestation .
28 CI is having trouble with the Charity Commissioners ( a notoriously humourless bunch ) who take the view that clowning does not contribute to the alleviation of poverty , suffering and want , and is therefore not a charitable activity .
29 It does not contribute to the definition of a class — for he is adamant that the class positions adopted by particular groups are not indicative of their true class membership .
30 Gestational age does not contribute to this relation .
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